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(No Model.)

A.. J. HILL.

HAY PRESS.

Patented Peb.4,1890`..

Nro/mfr UNITED STATES f PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM J. HILL, OF CHARLESTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LORENZOD. WOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

HAY-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.' 420,685, datedFebruary 4, 1890.

` Application filed July 15, 1889. Serial No. 317,520. (No model.)

`line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of my improvement, and Fig. 4is a detail view of one of the followers.

The same numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Referring to the several parts by their numerals, l indicates the bodyof the press, having at each end at each side of its center the boxes 22, in which the bales are compressed.

At the center of the press are placed. the follower-operating devices,which consist of the following parts:

3 indicates a horizontal sliding casting, formed at each end with thecurved shoulders 4l 4 and having the perforated end lugs 5. The lowersides of the longitudinal edges of the casting 3 are formed withguide-recesses 6 to adapt the lcasting to fit and slide on the verticallower edges 7 of the pressframe.

8 indicates the drive=wheel, consisting of a flat wheel or disk whichtits loosely in the casting 3, as shown, and is formed with the straightshoulder 9, for the purpose hereinafter described. A top plate orcasting 10,'of the same size as the casting 3, lits upon the top of thesaid casting and is formed at each end with a perforated lug 11. Thelongitudinal edges of this top plate are recessed at 12 to adapt them tofit and slide under guide-straps 13.

Vhen the casting 3, the disk 8, and the plate 10 are placed in position,a pivot 14e is passed down through registering central apertures 15, 15,and 15b in the plate, wheel, and casting, respectively, the drive-wheelturning on this central pivot.

16 17 indicate the two followers, each of which is formed at its innerend witha perforated lug 18, and the said lugs are pivotedl between theperforated end lugs 5 and 11 of the casting and -top plate. y

On the lower side of the top plate is a lock or stop plate 19, of a wideV shape, which may be either a separate plate secured to the top plate,or may be cast or formed integral with the same.

A projecting arm 20 of the drive-wheel 8 has a socket 2O formed at Aoneside, in which its and is bolted one fork of the bifurcated end of anarni 21, by which the press is operated. The wheel 8 is formed at theside with the tapering opening 22, which begins in the base of the arm20a,its outer end being about. one inch outside of the circularcircumference of the wheel and extends in toward the center of thewheel, being about eleven inches long. The outer end of this opening isabout three and one-half inches wide, and it decreases in width. towardits inner end, so that the said inner end is only two inches wide. Theking-bolt 23 passes through the press-frame and through the guide-strips13 and 13 and through the tapering opening 22, the arm 20 passing outbetween the said guide-strips 13 and 13'.

The press is usually driven by one horse or mule, which is attached tothe outer end of the leVerar1n 21 and walks back and forth in a nearlystraight line, going only about twenty-two feet before turning. Thewheel '8 turns only. one-quarter of a circle, when a straight shoulder 9comes in` contact with one straight edge of the V=shaped lockingshoulder or plate 19 of the top plate 10, the wheel being thus stoppedat the end of each stroke. As the wheel 8 is thus turned for aquarterrevolution iirst in one direction and then in the other it slidesthe casting 3 and plate 10 iirst in one direction and then in the other,moving the followers 16 17 alternately back and forth. The taperingopening 22, through which the king-bolt 23 passes, effectually preventsany hanging or binding of the Wheel and castings, enabling the severalparts to work freely and easily, passing the center without friction andbinding in making the necessary strokes.

My new and improved double-acting press is Worked entirely from theside, and the ICO horses that draw it to the stack-yard or meadow aretherefore not in the Way. One man can put the hay in the two boxes. Asthe horse or mule has only to travel twenty-two feet for each stroke,owing to the wheel 8 only turning for a quarter-circle, my pressoperates very rapidly and will press two hundred bales per day, eachbale weighing one hundred pounds.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In adouble-actingheling-press, the co1nbination, with the twofollowers having the apertured end lugs, of the sliding casting havingthe curved shoulders 4, the central` aperture, and the apertured endlugs, the top plate having the apertured end lugs and central opening,the drive-wheel having thehan die-socket and formed with the taperingopening 22 and the central opening, the central pivot, and theking-bolt, substantially as set forth.

2. In a double-acting baling-press, the comn bination, with the twofollowers having the apertured end lugs, of the sliding casting havingthe curved shoulders/1, the central aperture, andthe apertured end lugs,the top plate having the V-shaped stop-shoulders, the apertured endlugs, and the central opening, the drive-wheel having the straightshoulder 9, the handle-socket, the tapering opening 22, and the centralopening, the central pivot, and the king-bolt, substantially as setforth.

3. In a double-acting baling-press, the combination,with the framehaving the guidestrips, of the two followers having the apertured endlugs, the slidingcasting having the edge recesses 6, the curvedshoulders 4, the central aperture, and the apertured end lugs, the topplate having the edge recesses 12, the V-shaped stop-shoulders, theapertured end lugs, -and the central opening, v,the drivewheel havingthe straight 'shoulder 9, the handle-socket, the tapering 'opening 22,and the central opening, the lever-arm, the cen tral pivot, and thelti'ngbolt, substantially as set forth.

ABRAHAM J. HILL.

Witnesses:

L. D. Woon, JACK GORDON.

